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Grab Color Palettes From Your Current Page In Firefox



Design inspiration can come from a lot of different places. If you find yours from digital sources on the web, Palette Grabber for Firefox might be incredibly useful to you.

Install it, and Palette Grabber sits in the left corner of your status bar waiting to leap into action. A single click (right or left) exports a selective palette based on your current page in Firefox. Palette selection is very intelligent, producing accurate swatch sets for each of the websites I sampled.

Palette Grabber supports several file formats, including Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro, the GIMP, and Mac OS X Color Picker. Minimalists and power users can elect to save a tabbed text listing of RGB values.

For a 25k download, Palette Grabber is definitely worth adding to your Firefox install if you do any digital design work.

Filed under: Design, Utilities, Web services, Design Tips

Design Tip : Colorjack Sphere - a palette creator


Palette generators are nothing new, in fact they go back to the same color theory designers have used for ages. Colorjack takes the color wheel into the 21st century.

Available both online as a super slick AJAX application -- with the ability to export palette files for Illustrator, Photoshop and more -- Colorjack is also available as a Mac OS Widget so you can keep the power of a color wheel on your desktop at all times.

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Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Freeware

Color Palette Generator

Color Palette GeneratorHere's an ingenious way to create a palette of colors that work well together for your next design project - Color Palette Generator. Simply supply the site with an image that contains colors you enjoy, and it will select a set of colors from the image that are complimentary to one another, and match the image's colors. As stated on the site, this can be useful for design projects that rely on a central image, but I can imagine it could also be a good way to choose colors for offline endeavors as well. Maybe you can match your wall color to a color from your favorite painting or rug. Imagine the possibilities.

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